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"Hmm!" Ji Yan nodded: "Has it been debugged?" ”

"Just installed, haven't tried it yet." The craftsman replied.

"Then try!"

"No! It's just that this thing has never been used, and I'm afraid it will be dangerous, so please stay away from my king. ”

Ji Yan led everyone out of the urn city and came to the main city wall, watching the craftsmen and several soldiers operating the stone throwing machine from a distance.

Under the craftsman's command, a soldier placed a stone the size of a human head into a net pocket and pressed it tightly to the ground, so that the other end of the arm was raised high. The other three soldiers came to the other end, each holding on to a rope, and with the craftsman "one, two, three, pull!" At the same time, the three of them exerted force in their hands at the same time, their feet left the ground, and their bodies fell on the rope, so that the arms of the machine slowly bent into a bow shape on the axis of the beam.

"Put!" With a loud shout from the craftsman, the soldier who held down the net bag suddenly let go of his hand, and the arm of the machine crossed an arc, and the net bag loaded with stones bounced towards the sky, and when it bounced to the end, the stones in the net pocket flew out diagonally in front of it under the huge inertia.

"Oh!" The crowd roared in amazement, all of them rejoicing at the successful launch of the stones.

With a loud "bang", the stones fell to the ground, and everyone's cheers also came to an abrupt end, and they found that the stones were only twenty zhang away from the wall of the urn city, and they did not even reach the moat.

Ji Che rushed towards the stone thrower without saying a word, and shouted loudly: "This is the stone thrower you have been tossing for most of the day? What can it do? If you have a lot of strength, you can throw it farther than this one directly with your hands. ”

"The villain has done his best to repair it, but it still doesn't seem to be enough, and it will be difficult to improve it for a while," said the craftsman. ”

Ji Yan was also disappointed and walked slowly. Yan Shu, who was following behind, shook his head and said: "This is still on the city wall eight or nine zhang high, if it is flat ground, I am afraid it can only be thrown out a few zhang away." ”

"How about the other one?" Ji Che continued to shout.

"The other one is placed on the urn city next to it, and it is estimated that it is about the same!"

"If it doesn't work, forget it, just tear it down and take it away!" Ji Che said angrily: "Don't be embarrassed!" ”

The craftsman shook his head and ordered several soldiers to prepare for the disassembly.

Seeing this, Ji Yan said loudly: "Slow! ”

The crowd looked at him curiously.

"Nothing new happens overnight!" Ji Yan said slowly: "As long as the direction is correct, we should insist on doing it, and if there is a problem, we should find a way to solve it, rather than simply vetoing it!" ”

As he spoke, he spun around the stone-throwing machine for a long time before he looked at the craftsman and said, "You tie a piece of wood horizontally where you pull the rope." ”

"What's the use of that?" The craftsman said suspiciously.

"Do what the Son of Heaven says, don't make noise!" Ji Che said loudly.

"Okay!" The craftsman then had someone pick up a piece of wood five or six feet long, pull off one end of the rope, and tie the wood horizontally to the top of the arm.

"Tie some more rope to the beams." Ji Yan said again.

The craftsman did so. It was very simple and it was done very quickly.

The eyes of some people in the crowd lit up, and they found that just a few simple movements suddenly made a great difference in the whole stone throwing machine: because of the existence of the crosswood, more people can participate in the rope pulling, so that more power can be generated, and the stone will inevitably be able to be thrown farther. They couldn't help but sigh: The Son of Heaven is really the Son of Heaven!

Ji Yan looked at the craftsman and said, "It should be possible for eight or nine people to pull the rope together!" ”

The craftsman was delighted: "I am Wang Yingming! ”

"Okay, you do it again." Ji Yan said and walked away with everyone away.

The craftsmen left ten people to operate the stone throwing machine.

This time, one person put a stone into the net pocket, and the other nine pulled the rope, and the craftsman shouted "Release!" The arm bounced up with a "woo", and then the stone "whoosh!" With a black shadow, he flew out far away.

"Wow!" The stone flew all the way to the far end of the moat before falling into the water, bringing out a large splash of water, and the flight distance was more than 50 zhang.

"Wow!" There was a shout of joy on the walls.

Practice this a few more times, and it shouldn't be a problem to throw the stone across the moat, and you can attack the enemy from a distance. The problem of the stone thrower was solved, and Ji Yan didn't say much, so he asked Ji Che to continue to patrol the city defense.

When I came to a battlement wall, I found that several people were fiddling with a large bow and crossbow shape, and the bow arm was seven or eight feet high, and the height exceeded the wall battlement, so I couldn't help but stop and look closely.

Ji Che hurriedly said: "This is a bed crossbow, which is connected by a winch, and requires several people to operate at the same time, with a feather spear as an arrow, it can be shot to the other side of the river, and the lethality is very great, if it is shot accurately, it can even directly overturn the enemy's siege vehicle." ”

Ji Yan was pleasantly surprised: "Bed crossbow? How many of these things do we have? ”

"There are sixteen in total, and after test firing, only nine are still in service."

"Excellent! With these bed crossbows, our victory is more secure! ”

It took more than an hour for Ji Yan to see the entire south wall, and the stone thrower and bed crossbow brought him a huge surprise.

On the way back, he asked, "How many spears do we have?" ”

Ji Che replied: "Nearly a thousand." ”

"Where's the bow and arrow?"

"3,000 bows and more than 50,000 arrows."

"That's not much!" Ji Yan instructed: "You must use it sparingly, and you must not shoot indiscriminately if you don't have the range." ”

"No!"

Ji Yan muttered: "Ji Dan, Ji Dan, my career as a horse started with cleaning up you!" ”

After a simple feast, Ji Dan took a group of cronies to inspect the situation of the camp and gave some encouragement to the soldiers, which made the morale high. Seeing that the soldiers were cooking and the meals had ended, two hours had passed, but Zhang Ting had not returned, and couldn't help but say in a slightly impetuous voice: "Why hasn't Zhang Ting come back yet?" ”

Ji Peng said worriedly: "It doesn't look good!" Maybe he was detained by the Son of Heaven, or even killed. ”

Ji Dan's face flushed red, and his triangular eyes flashed fiercely: "Xiao'er An dares to do this?" Wait another hour, if there is no news by the time of Shen, we will start to attack the city, and if we don't beat him hard, it seems that he can't be honest! ”

Then a shout: "Gather the generals!" ”

With the sound of a rapid drum beat, the whole camp suddenly became noisy. More than a dozen generals came to the Chinese military tent.

Ji Dan issued an order: "Jiang Fan led 10,000 subordinates to be responsible for filling the river; Liu Feng led 3,000 archers to cover; Lin Fang led 5,000 soldiers to attack the city wall; Wenxiu led a thousand soldiers to attack the city gates; Two thousand cavalry swept with Bengong. An hour later, the siege began. ”

Several generals were ordered to leave.

Ji Dan looked at Ji Peng again and said, "The camp will be handed over to the eldest brother." Today's battle is mainly a temptation, and it is unlikely that the city will be broken, so you must guard the camp; But if you do break through the gates, you will lead all your troops to rush forward. ”

"No!" Ji Peng responded loudly.

Jiang Fan has been depressed lately. In the past, as an infantry general, he could be regarded as Ji Gen's henchman, and his soldiers and equipment have always been the best. But since Ji Dan established himself as the Duke of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, he reorganized his team, and all the soldiers were replaced by slave soldiers, as the auxiliary of cavalry and chariot soldiers, and he had to do all the hard work in the battle, such as the river reclamation task he got now.

The width of the moat of the royal city is about 20 zhang, and the method of crossing the river with a ladder is obviously not feasible, because the length of the ladder is basically not more than 10 zhang, so you can only fill the river with stones and sand with the bows and arrows of the defenders, which is the most tiring and dangerous work in the whole war. But he can only accept it, who made himself not a bird before, if it weren't for the strong support of his generals, he would probably have been removed from his military position. Now that people are under the eaves, they can't help but bow their heads,

Fortunately, he had already prepared, and when he set out, he asked each soldier to bring a sack of sack, as long as these pockets were filled with sand, 10,000 people were 10,000 sandbags, and if they were thrown into the river, at least half of them could be filled, and the rest could be crossed by a ladder.